This collection is open for use with following restrictions on access: the letters of recomendation in Series IV are RESTRICTED.

Restrictions on use:

Smith College retains copyright of materials created as part of its business operations; however, copyright in other items in this collection may be held by their respective creators. For reproductions of materials that are governed by fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For instances which may regard materials in the collection not created by Smith College, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold materials' copyrights and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from Smith College Special Collections to move forward with their use.

Smith College Archives

Biographical / Historical

Thomas Corwin Mendenhall was born on June 14, 1910 in Chicago, IL to Charles E. Mendenhall, a physicist at the University of Wisconsin and Dorothy Reed Mendenhall, an 1895 graduate of Smith College and noted pediatrician.

Mendenhall received B.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Yale in 1932 and 1938, respectively, and held B.S. and B.Litt. degrees from Oxford University, where he was a Rhodes Scholar. Mendenhall was a history professor at Yale University and coach of the crew team (1937-1959). Six years later he began taking on administrative duties, first as assistant to the provost at Yale University (1943-1950), then as the master of Berkeley College, an undergraduate residential college at Yale University (1950-1959). During his time at Yale, Mendenhall assisted in the establishment of the Directed Studies Program, and, with other colleagues in the history department, initiated the "problem method" of teaching history, which emphasizes the analysis of source materials as the foundation for the development of historical generalizations.

Mendenhall was the sixth president of Smith College. He accepted the position in 1958, and began work in the fall of 1959. He remained at the college for 16 years, retiring in the spring of 1975. He guided Smith through a succession of changes that significantly altered the college's social environment and curriculum. Smith participation in intercollegiate athletic competition greatly increased on his watch. In addition, Mendenhall's interest in increasing the collaboration among Smith and its four neighboring institutions -- Amherst, Mount Holyoke and Hampshire colleges and the University of Massachusetts -- led to the founding of Five Colleges, Inc., of which he was president from its beginning until his retirement. Beyond the Smith community, Mendenhall served on the boards of a number of secondary schools and was actively involved with the Council for Basic Education. In 1962, Mendenhall helped found Catalyst, the national, nonprofit organization that seeks to advance women in business and the professions, and he later chaired its board.

Mendenhall retired to Martha's Vineyard in 1975 with his wife Cornelia Baker Mendenhall. He married Cornelia Baker in 1938. Cornelia was born in Englewood, NJ and graduated from Vassar with a degree in biology in 1935. She was a very caring and nurturing wife. During his retirement Mendenhall was active in the community life of Martha's Vineyard, serving on the boards of the Martha's Vineyard Hospital and several conservation groups and regularly sailing his Menemsha 24 sloop on Vineyard Sound. He researched and wrote books on the history of rowing in America (1975-1993). Crew and boating were two of Mendenhall's lifetime passions. He found rowing to be a great source of relief throughout his life. He captained the Balliol College crew while at Oxford, coached the Berkeley College crew while teaching at Yale, served as an informal coach for college rowers at Smith and wrote three books on the subject, including A Short History of American Rowing (1980).

Mendenhall was loved by many, and his death on July 18, 1998 at the age of 88 on Martha's Vineyard was mourned by all those whose lives he had touched. Surviving him are his two daughters Bethany Mendenhall and Cornelia Small, and two grandchildren. Cornelia Mendenhall died on October 17, 2002 on Martha's Vineyard.

Scope and Contents

The Mendenhall Papers include 10 linear feet (24 document boxes) of material dating from 1910-1999. The papers include correspondence, writings, professional records, news clippings and photographs. For more specific information about the contents of the collection see the series descriptions and folder listing below.

This collection is organized into six series:

I. Biographical Material

II. Education

III. Personal Correspondence

IV. Professional Records

V. Writings and Speeches

VI. Photographs and Ephemera

Information on Use

Terms of Access and Use

Restrictions on access:

This collection is open for use with following restrictions on access: the letters of recomendation in Series IV are RESTRICTED.

Restrictions on use:

Smith College retains copyright of materials created as part of its business operations; however, copyright in other items in this collection may be held by their respective creators. For reproductions of materials that are governed by fair use as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission to cite or publish is required. For instances which may regard materials in the collection not created by Smith College, researchers are responsible for determining who may hold materials' copyrights and obtaining approval from them. Researchers do not need anything further from Smith College Special Collections to move forward with their use.

Preferred Citation

Please use the following format when citing materials from this collection:

The records in this series include news clippings, memorabilia, and correspondence. The bulk of the information relates to financial correspondence and rowing and sailing paraphernalia. There is also information about the Mendenhall family, travel memorabilia, and leisure activities.

General

1910-1998

Box 1: folder 1

Newspaper Clippings

1959-1999

Box 1: folder 2

Bethany Land

1939-1952 undated

Box 1: folder 3

Bethany Gilbert & Sullivan Society

1947-1948

Box 1: folder 4

Childhood Miscellaneous

undated

Box 1: folder 5

Family

General

1936 1940 undated

Box 1: folder 6

Children

1967 1996

Box 1: folder 7

Publication of "Mendenhall Family Affairs" Correspondence

1959-1974

Box 1: folder 8

Marriage

1937-1938 undated

Box 1: folder 9

Finances

General

1952-1972

Box 1: folder 10

Bank of Wisconsin

1949 1956-1957 1971

Box 1: folder 11

Dorothy Reed Mendenhall's Estate

1950-1970 undated

Box 1: folder 12

Edith Allen Clark Estate

1966

Box 1: folder 13

TCM Estate Plan

1972

Box 1: folder 14

Income Statements

1952-1976

Box 1: folder 15

Lists of Assets

1949-1972

Box 1: folder 16

Tax Returns

1936-1970

Box 1: folder 17

Miscellaneous Bills & Receipts

1933-1943 undated

Box 1: folder 18

Rowing & Sailing

1930-1940

Box 2: folder 1

Rowing & Sailing

1931-1940 undated

Box 2: folder 2

Travel

Passports

1925-1928

Box 2: folder 3

Cruises

1929-1937 undated

Box 2: folder 4

Germany

1931-1938 undated

Box 2: folder 5

Miscellaneous

1935-1938 1950 undated

Box 2: folder 6

Theatre Programs

ca.1929-1936

Box 2: folder 7

Theatre Programs

1930-1937 undated

Box 2: folder 8

Miscellaneous

1931 1936 undated

Box 2: folder 9

SERIES II. EDUCATION

1.667 linear feet(4 containers)

The files in this series are organized roughly chronologically by institution. Included are correspondence, papers, and memorabilia. Also included are sample examinations, crew team material, alumni material, and Rhodes scholarship information. Some oversized material is also included in a separate box (#5) near the end of the series.

Grade School

1919-1921

Box 3: folder 1

Wisconsin High School

1921-1924

Box 3: folder 2

Asheville School

1925 1927 1929

Box 3: folder 3

Ecole Alsacienne

1926

Box 3: folder 4

Le Rosey-General

1927

Box 3: folder 5

Le Rosey-Notebooks

1927

Box 3: folder 6

Philips Academy

1927-1928

Box 3: folder 7

Philips Academy-Correspondence

1931 1934 1937 1950 undated

Box 3: folder 8

College Entrance Exams

1925-1927

Box 3: folder 9

Yale

General

1925-1938 undated

Box 4: folder 1

Examination Questions

1929-1938

Box 4: folder 2

Graduate Work

ca.1932-1937

Box 4: folder 3

Track Team Memorabilia

1928-1932

Box 4: folder 4

Undergraduate Autobiographical Essays

undated

Box 4: folder 5

Memorabilia

1927-1936

Box 4: folder 6

Memorabilia

1937-1940 undated

Box 4: folder 7

Miscellaneous Papers, Folder 1

1927-1931

Box 4: folder 8

[OVERSIZE MATERIALS (Box 5)]

Miscellaneous Papers, Folder 2

1937

Box 5: folder 1

Oxford

Crew

1934-1940 undated

Box 5: folder 2

Crew-Memorabilia

1933-1939

Box 5: folder 3

Papers

"The Beckett Controversy"

undated

Box 5: folder 4

Bibliography for "Influence of the East on Roman Christian Act

undated

Box 5: folder 5

"Death of James I - Natural or Unnatural?", by J. Roy Newton

undated

Box 5: folder 6

"The Development of the Fury under Henry II"

undated

Box 5: folder 7

"The Development of Parliament in the 14th Century"

undated

Box 5: folder 8

"Foreign Period"

undated

Box 5: folder 9

"Foreign Period"

undated

Box 5: folder 10

"The Foreign Policy of Henry II"

Mar 1931

Box 5: folder 11

Frags

undated

Box 5: folder 12

"Frederick as an Enlightened Despot"

undated

Box 5: folder 13

"Gibbon's Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire"

1934

Box 5: folder 14

"How the Efforts of the Upper Landholding Classess to

1934 undated

Box 5: folder 15

"How far was Magna Carta a Baronial Reaction from

1934 undated undated

Box 5: folder 16

"In What Sense was England a Feudal Monarchy in the

1934 undated undated undated

Box 5: folder 17

"Johnson's Journey to the Western Isles"

undated

Box 5: folder 18

"The Lancastrian Experiment"

undated

Box 5: folder 19

"Locke, Hume, & Robertson

undated

Box 5: folder 20

"Marivaux & Richardson"

undated

Box 5: folder 21

"Military System of Edward I"

undated

Box 5: folder 22

"Political Theory"

undated

Box 5: folder 23

"Principles underlying the Foreign Policy of James I"

undated

Box 5: folder 24

"Protectorate & Restoration"

undated

Box 5: folder 25

"Richard II - as Treated by the Historians"

undated

Box 5: folder 26

"Roman - Britain"

undated

Box 5: folder 27

"The Significance of Domesday"

undated

Box 5: folder 28

"Underlying Causes of the Baronial Revolt of 1268"

undated

Box 5: folder 29

Untitled, Period 1066-1272

Mar 1934

Box 5: folder 30

General

1933-1937

Box 6: folder 1

Alumni Material

1940-1982 undated

Box 6: folder 2

Epaminonas, Philip & Alexander

undated

Box 6: folder 3

"Hellenistic Strategy"

undated

Box 6: folder 4

Rhodes Scholarship

General

1931-1938

Box 6: folder 5

Correspondence

1931-1942

Box 6: folder 6

Miscellaneous Papers & Notes

undated

Box 6: folder 7

Receipts

1933-1937

Box 6: folder 8

Memorabilia

1931-1934

Box 6: folder 9

Memorabilia

1935-1936

Box 6: folder 10

Memorabilia

1937-1939 1950 undated

Box 6: folder 11

SERIES III. PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE

4.167 linear feet(10 containers)

Mendenhall's personal correspondence comprises the bulk of his collection. The material is arranged alphabetically by correspondent, with a set of miscellaneous and unidentified items at the end. Some oversized material is also included in a separate box (# 16) at the end of the series.

Allison, John S.

1932-1936 undated

Box 7: folder 1

Baker, Mrs. G.D. [Cornelia's Mother]

ca.1938

Box 7: folder 2

Baker, Jaimie

undated

Box 7: folder 3

Balfour, Nancy

1934-1935 undated

Box 7: folder 4

Baltins, Nancy Solstad

1994-1995

Box 7: folder 5

Barres, Dorothy & Hester [Hertic]

1931-1935 undated

Box 7: folder 6

Bartholomew, Dwight

1970 undated

Box 7: folder 7

Bauer, Nancy

ca.1980

Box 7: folder 8

Bell, Edith

1933

Box 7: folder 9

Benbow, Edna

1936 1940 undated

Box 7: folder 10

Benson, Rita

1975-1982

Box 7: folder 11

Bigelow, Sophia [Aunt Sophia, Mrs. Horace]

1936-1938

Box 7: folder 12

Bill, Kenneth

1935-1937

Box 7: folder 13

Bjorhus, Kathy

1978-1981

Box 7: folder 14

Bodine, Betty & John

1933-1946 1975-1985 undated

Box 7: folder 15

Bodine, Katherine W.

1935 1938

Box 7: folder 16

Bodine, Margaret

1938

Box 7: folder 17

Bodine, Tom

1936

Box 7: folder 18

Bonner, Susan Vaill

1976-1994

Box 7: folder 19

Brewster, Mary

1935-1939

Box 7: folder 20

Brown, Timothy

1935-1938

Box 7: folder 21

Bush, George H. W.

undated

Box 7: folder 22

Child, Julia

1976

Box 7: folder 23

Coffey, Keating

1928-1952 undated

Box 7: folder 24

Coffey, Titian & Eva

1930-1934

Box 7: folder 25

Coffin, Fran Sue

1928-1933

Box 7: folder 26

Corbin, Peter

1937-1938 undated

Box 7: folder 27

Costley-White, Cyril

1937 1938 1942 undated

Box 7: folder 28

Cousins, Hulda Fox [Friend of Louisa K. Fast]

1934-1938

Box 7: folder 29

Cousol, Marguerite

1929-1934

Box 7: folder 30

Cunningham, Hugh

1937-1942

Box 7: folder 31

Davis, Catherine [Kate]

1931-1937 undated

Box 7: folder 32

Davis, Dick

1934-1935 undated

Box 7: folder 33

Dean, Janet

1934

Box 7: folder 34

Deards, Anne

1933-1937 undated

Box 7: folder 35

DeVane, Bill & Mabel

1948 1950 1958

Box 7: folder 36

Dickinson, Alice

ca.1973-1975 1987

Box 7: folder 37

Dodge, Katherine & R.E. Neil

1926-1938 undated

Box 7: folder 38

Duckett, Eleanor

1960-1962

Box 7: folder 39

Dumas, Hilda

1933-1940 1949 undated

Box 7: folder 40

Dunham, Bill

1975-1976

Box 7: folder 41

Dunlap, Cecile Bausman [CY]

1930-1935 undated

Box 7: folder 42

Dunn, Mary Maples

1990-1994

Box 7: folder 43

English, Jocelyn

1935-1936

Box 7: folder 44

Faison, Sam L.

1933-1938

Box 7: folder 45

Fast, Louisa K.

To CBM

1975 undated

Box 8: folder 1

From CBM

1957-1965

Box 8: folder 2

From CBM

1966-1967

Box 8: folder 3

From CBM

1968-1970

Box 8: folder 4

From CBM

1971-1974

Box 8: folder 5

From CBM

undated

Box 8: folder 6

To TCM

ca.1932-1935 1975

Box 8: folder 7

From TCM

1966-1971 undated

Box 8: folder 8

Fates, Harold L. [Joe]

1935

Box 8: folder 9

Flender, Mary [Molly]

1979 1981 1987 undated

Box 8: folder 10

Foord, Arch

1943-1950

Box 8: folder 11

Fort, John Franklin [Frank, Buttercup]

1934-1935

Box 8: folder 12

Friar, Mary

1936 1937 undated

Box 8: folder 13

Galbraith, James & Jane

1936 undated

Box 8: folder 14

Galbraith, Matt

1989

Box 8: folder 15

Gaunstatd, C. Harris

1934 undated

Box 8: folder 16

Gesell, Beatrice Chandler

1931-1935

Box 8: folder 17

Gesell, Gerchard Alden & Masion [Gerry & Peggy]

1933-1937 undated

Box 8: folder 18

Gesell, Katherine Chandler [Tassy, Mrs. Joseph Walden]

1933-1937 undated

Box 8: folder 19

Gesell, Peggy [Peggy Pike]

1936

Box 8: folder 20

Glover, Everett & Virginia [Ginnie]

1973-1989 undated

Box 9: folder 1

Gotwals, Vernon

1918-1994

Box 9: folder 2

Greenleaf, Cynthia

1975-1979

Box 9: folder 3

Griswold, A. Whitney & Mary

1950 1981 undated

Box 9: folder 4

Hanks, Jim

1932 1938 1958-1959 undated

Box 9: folder 5

Hanks, June [Lucien] & Jane

1926-1994

Box 9: folder 6

Hanks, June [Lucien] & Jane

undated

Box 9: folder 7

Hart, Margaret M.

1931-1935

Box 9: folder 8

Henning, Basil Duke

1936-1941 1949-1964 1980 undated

Box 9: folder 9

Hodgkinson, Laura

1936 1977 undated

Box 9: folder 10

Hoyt, Kity [Kit]

1980-1993

Box 9: folder 11

Hoyt, Nelly S.

ca.1960 1975 1977 1992-1994 undated

Box 9: folder 12

Jones, Llewellyn

1935-1936

Box 9: folder 13

Kennedy, Jacqueline

1964

Box 9: folder 14

Kenny, Anthony

1978

Box 9: folder 15

Lamont, Helen [Aunt Helen]

1932-1935

Box 9: folder 16

Langdale, Marion

1910

Box 9: folder 17

Lascelles, John

1934-1937 undated

Box 9: folder 18

Leach, Mary Alice

1931-1934 undated

Box 9: folder 19

Lloyd, Frank & Betty

1935-1938 undated

Box 9: folder 20

Logue, Kathy

1979

Box 9: folder 21

Lovett, Sid [Uncle Sid]

undated

Box 9: folder 22

Luederite, Clara

1934-1935 undated

Box 9: folder 23

McGhee, George C.

1936-1937 undated

Box 9: folder 24

McInerny, Anne [Pinkston]

1979-1981 1995 undated

Box 9: folder 25

Mendell, C.W.

1942-1943

Box 9: folder 26

Mendenhall, Bethany [Boo]

1952-1962 undated

Box 9: folder 27

Mendenhall, Charles E.

To TCM

1926-1935 undated

Box 9: folder 28

From TCM

1926-1936

Box 10: folder 1

From Miscellaneous

1926-1932

Box 10: folder 2

Mendenhall, Cornelia

From TCM

1938

Box 10: folder 3

From TCM [In England]

Jun-Aug 1952

Box 10: folder 4

From TCM [In England]

Jun-Aug 1955

Box 10: folder 5

To TCM

1950-1964

Box 10: folder 6

Mendenhall, Dorothy Reed

From CBM

ca.1937-1957

Box 10: folder 7

From TCM [From Switzerland]

1926-1927

Box 10: folder 8

From TCM [From Phillips Academy, Andover, MA]

1927-1928

Box 10: folder 9

From TCM [From Yale]

1928-1929 undated

Box 10: folder 10

From TCM [From Yale]

1929-1930

Box 10: folder 11

From TCM [From Yale]

1930-1931

Box 10: folder 12

From TCM [From Yale]

1931-1932

Box 10: folder 13

From TCM [From Yale]

1932-1933

Box 10: folder 14

From TCM [From Yale]

1933-1934

Box 10: folder 15

From TCM [From Yale]

1935

Box 11: folder 1

From TCM [From Yale]

1936

Box 11: folder 2

From TCM [From Yale]

1937-1938

Box 11: folder 3

From TCM [From Yale]

1938

Box 11: folder 4

From TCM [On Sabbatical at Oxford]

1949-1950

Box 11: folder 5

From TCM [From Yale]

1954-1955

Box 11: folder 6

From TCM [From Yale]

1955-1956

Box 11: folder 7

From TCM [From Yale]

1957

Box 11: folder 8

From TCM [From Yale]

1963-1964 undated

Box 11: folder 9

From TCM Children

1956-1957

Box 11: folder 10

In Senior Drama Show with Florence M. Spalker: A Mid Summer Nights Dream

1895

Box 11: folder 11

Condolences for the Death of DRM-Miscellaneous (A-L)

1964

Box 11: folder 12

Condolences for the Death of DRM-Miscellaneous (M-Z)

1964

Box 12: folder 1

Mendenhall, Mary

1954-1955 undated

Box 12: folder 2

Mendenhall, Nealy

1954-1955 undated

Box 12: folder 3

Monteivault, Ctesse de

1934

Box 12: folder 4

Montgomery, Josephine

1933 1934 1937

Box 12: folder 5

Montgomery, Mary Dudley

1932 undated

Box 12: folder 6

Moore, John D. & Mary

1933-1937 undated

Box 12: folder 7

Morgan, Constance

1967-1975

To CBM

1967-1975

Box 12: folder 8

To TCM

1975-1995 undated

Box 12: folder 9

Moseley, Anna Burr

1932-1937

Box 12: folder 10

Neff, Ruth & Eugene

1932-1937 undated

Box 12: folder 11

Notestein, Ada Comstock [Mrs. Wallace]

To CBM

1970

Box 12: folder 12

To TCM

1955-1968

Box 12: folder 13

Notestein, Wallace

1933-1942 undated

Box 12: folder 14

Offner, Elliot

1980-1982

Box 12: folder 15

Osborn, Bob

1965 1970 undated

Box 12: folder 16

Overton, Mary [Aunt]

1933-1937

Box 12: folder 17

Owen, David

1932-1936

Box 12: folder 18

Paepke, Nitza

1934-1935 1963 1969

Box 12: folder 19

Page-Gernon, Dorothy

1926-1934 undated

Box 12: folder 20

Pargellis, Stanley & Elizabeth [Betty]

1932-1937

Box 12: folder 21

Pollock, Herb

1936-1939 1988 1993 undated

Box 12: folder 22

Quidlen, Mary

1973-1977 undated

Box 12: folder 23

Quinn, Florence [Flo]

1975-1980

Box 12: folder 24

Renwick, Ralph & Eliza

1933-1937 undated

Box 12: folder 25

Rosenberry, Cicely

1918-1969 undated

Box 12: folder 26

Rosenberry, Marvin & Lois [Aunt Lois]

1934 1937 undated

Box 12: folder 27

Rostow, Eugene V.

1950 undated

Box 12: folder 28

Rowland, Benjamin Allen [Al]

1932 1933 1935

Box 12: folder 29

Schalk, Marshall

1980

Box 12: folder 30

Sharp, Bestria & Frank C.

1935 1938 undated

Box 12: folder 31

Sheriff, Bob

1935-1938

Box 12: folder 32

Sherriff-MacGregor, M. Uma

1936-1938

Box 13: folder 1

Simmons, Ruth

1994 1995

Box 13: folder 2

Smith, Caroline

1926-1931

Box 13: folder 3

Standing, Mary

1932-1933

Box 13: folder 4

Stella, Trudy

1975 1976 1993

Box 13: folder 5

Stuurman, Don

1935-1940 undated

Box 13: folder 6

Sumner, Humphrey

1935-1940 undated

Box 13: folder 7

Tap, Hendrik

1931-1932

Box 13: folder 8

Tener, Alexander

1932-1937 undated

Box 13: folder 9

Upton, Eleanor

1966-1967

Box 13: folder 10

Vaill, George D.

1968-1975

Box 13: folder 11

Van Dusen, Lewis

1933-1937 undated

Box 13: folder 12

Ward, Paul

1988-1994

Box 13: folder 13

Watts, Ellen

1975 1982 1988-1990 undated

Box 13: folder 14

White, Katherine [Mrs. E. B.]

1977

Box 13: folder 15

Woodhall, Bertha

1934-1937 undated

Box 13: folder 16

Young, Francis

1930-1937 undated

Box 13: folder 17

Young, Karl

1935

Box 13: folder 18

Zug, Jeanette & Charles

1929-1935 undated

Box 13: folder 19

First Name Only

Barbara [Babs, B.]

1930-1931 undated

Box 13: folder 20

Bill

1932-1935 undated

Box 13: folder 21

John

1931-1938 undated

Box 13: folder 22

Josh

1934 undated

Box 13: folder 23

Mac

1927-1928 1935-1937

Box 13: folder 24

Sheila

1933-1934

Box 13: folder 25

Stephen

1936-1937

Box 13: folder 26

Stewart [Stew]

1936-1938

Box 13: folder 27

Miscellaneous A-Z

ca.1920s

Box 13: folder 28

Miscellaneous A-H

ca.1930s

Box 13: folder 29

Miscellaneous I-Z

ca.1930s

Box 13: folder 30

Miscellaneous A-Z

ca.1940s

Box 14: folder 1

Miscellaneous A-Z

ca.1950s

Box 14: folder 2

Miscellaneous A-Z

ca.1960s

Box 14: folder 3

Miscellaneous A-M

ca.1970s

Box 14: folder 4

Miscellaneous N-Z

ca.1970s

Box 14: folder 5

Miscellaneous A-Z

ca.1980s

Box 15: folder 1

Miscellaneous A-Z

ca.1990s

Box 15: folder 2

Miscellaneous A-Z

undated

Box 15: folder 3

Miscellaneous Family

1926-1969 undated

Box 15: folder 4

Miscellaneous No Names

1929-1938 undated

Box 15: folder 5

Miscellaneous Holiday Cards A-Z, No Name

1933 1936-1937 1951 1965 1980 1983 undated

Box 15: folder 6

[OVERSIZE MATERIALS (Box 16)]

Brown, John

1934-1939 1962 1972-1995 undated

Box 16: folder 1

Galbraith, Vivian & Ena [wife]

1936-1940 1952-1979 1991 undated

Box 16: folder 2

Mendenhall, John & Sally

1926-1945

Box 16: folder 3

Mendenhall, John & Sally

1950-1959

Box 16: folder 4

Mendenhall, John & Sally

1960-1969

Box 16: folder 5

Mendenhall, John & Sally

1970-1979

Box 16: folder 6

Mendenhall, John & Sally

1980-1993 undated

Box 16: folder 7

Moore, Mary [Galbraith] & John D.

1933-1937 1977-1994 undated

Box 16: folder 8

Moulton, Sylvia [Fletcher]

1934-1949 1962-1989 undated

Box 16: folder 9

Weaver, Toby & Marjory

1960-1997 undated

Box 16: folder 10

SERIES IV. PROFESSIONAL RECORDS

0.833 linear feet(2 containers)

The Professional Records series consists of correspondence, reports, and organizations with whom Mendenhall was affiliated. The bulk of the information relates to professional work done at Yale, including reports on the committee on general education and specific proposals for the revamping of the history department. Also included is professional work done at Smith College [post-retirement] with respect to the Ada Comstock program and issues regarding coeducation. The last folder of material entitled 'Letters of Recommendation' is RESTRICTED.

College Entrance Examination Board

1955-1958

Box 17: folder 1

Job Offers

1939-1948

Box 17: folder 2

Prospect Hill School

1956

Box 17: folder 3

Response to Broadcast on January 30, 1955

1955

Box 17: folder 4

Smith College [Post-Retirement]

General

1972-1996

Box 17: folder 5

Ada Comstock Program

1996

Box 17: folder 6

Coeducation

1978-1987

Box 17: folder 7

War Department/West Point

1941-1944 undated

Box 17: folder 8

World Caravan Guild, Inc.

1937-1938

Box 17: folder 9

Yale

General

1932-1950

Box 17: folder 10

General

1955-1971

Box 17: folder 11

General

undated

Box 17: folder 12

Committee on General Education

1953-1957

Box 18: folder 1

Committee on General Education

undated

Box 18: folder 2

Crew Team

1949-1950 undated

Box 18: folder 3

S.B. Hemingway, Master of Berkeley College

1949-1950

Box 18: folder 4

Hemingway Retirement

1938-1950 undated

Box 18: folder 5

History Department

1944-1945 undated

Box 18: folder 6

"The Mendenhall Proposals..."

1954

Box 18: folder 7

"Yale's Stake in the Residential Principle..."

1957

Box 18: folder 8

Miscellaneous

1937-1951 1975

Box 18: folder 9

Letters of Recommendation

Box 18: folder 10

General

RESTRICTED MATERIAL

SERIES V. WRITINGS and SPEECHES

2.083 linear feet(5 containers)

The majority of the Writings and Speeches series consists of research material for Mendenhall's publication entitled The Shrewsbury Drapers and the Welsh Wool Trade in the XVI and XVII Centuries (1953), which he worked on both as a graduate student and as a professor at Yale. Also included are articles, which are mostly related to his own personal work with relation to history, education, or crew and also issues that members of the Yale community found challenging and Smith relations. The series further includes speeches and quotable quotes that mainly pertain to Smith and Yale affairs.

General

1937-1947 undated

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General-Publishers

1947 1963-1987

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19

Research Material

General

1935-1936

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1949-1950 Sabbatical

1949-1950

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19

Cradock

Letters from Sarah B. Ball

1952 1955 1956

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Letters from Sarah B. Ball

1959 undated

Box
19

Agents & Apprentices

ca.1928-1959

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19

Agent Ratcliffe

ca.1928-1959

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19

Agents

ca.1928-1959

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19

Home-Essex

ca.1928-1959

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19

Will

ca.1928-1959

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19

at Medford

ca.1928-1959

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19

at Medford

ca.1928-1959

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19

Burgess "The Short Parliament"

ca.1928-1959

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19

"The Long Parliament"

ca.1928-1959

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19

"Colony Records" vs. Amer. Antiq. Soc. -Schurtleff vs. Haven

ca.1928-1959

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"Hiatus"

ca.1928-1959

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19

"Hiatus"

ca.1928-1959

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Cradock

General

ca.1928-1959

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19

Biography-Essex Institute

ca.1928-1959

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19

Biography-Massachusetts Historical Society

ca.1928-1959

Box
20

Biography-Roberts

ca.1928-1959

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20

Genealogy-Miscellaneous

ca.1928-1959

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20

Skinners of London

ca.1928-1959

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20

Massachusetts Bay Company-Charter

ca.1928-1959

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20

East India Company-Charter

ca.1928-1959

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20

American Ante Massachusetts Bay Colony

ca.1928-1959

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20

Endecott

ca.1928-1959

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20

Chronology-Dorchester-Massachusetts Bay Interregnum

ca.1928-1959

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20

Cradock

Biography-Rose-Troup

ca.1928-1959

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20

Biography-Skinners

ca.1928-1959

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20

Irish Property

ca.1928-1959

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20

Acts of the Privy Council

ca.1928-1959

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20

Cradock & Cokayne-Ships & Shipping

ca.1928-1959

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20

Quo Warranto of 1635

ca.1928-1959

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20

Suffolk Deeds-Index of Grantors

ca.1928-1959

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20

Cradock-Home-Wales

ca.1928-1959

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20

Colony Records-Massachusetts

ca.1928-1959

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20

Cradock-Biography-(A-B)

ca.1928-1959

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Alderman Cockayne's Project & the Cloth Trade

ca.1928-1959

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20

Tomb of Sir William Cokayne & his Wife

ca.1928-1959

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20

Calendar of State Papers

1513-1616

ca.1928-1959

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20

1617-1621

ca.1928-1959

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20

1622-1624

ca.1928-1959

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1625-1629

ca.1928-1959

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20

1513-1641

ca.1928-1959

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New England Company-Rose-Troup

ca.1928-1959

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Cradock

London

ca.1928-1959

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Miscellaneous

ca.1928-1959

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

Rose-Troup

ca.1928-1959

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Miscellaneous

ca.1928-1959

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Cradock-Biography-New England Historical Society

ca.1928-1959

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20

London-Church Records

ca.1928-1959

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20

Cradock

ca.1928-1959

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Letter to Winthrop

ca.1928-1959

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Biography-Medford Historical Society

ca.1928-1959

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20

Genealogy-Chart

ca.1928-1959

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Church Catalogue

ca.1928-1959

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20

Cradock's Plantation-Medford Historical Society

ca.1928-1959

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Brereton's Account of Gosnold's Voyage

ca.1928-1959

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20

Levett's Voyage

ca.1928-1959

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20

Waymouth's Voyage

ca.1928-1959

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20

"Description of New England" -Captain John Smith

ca.1928-1959

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20

Records of the Governor and Company of Massachusetts Bay Colony-Young

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 1

Cradock-Bibliography

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 2

Winthrop Papers-Miscellaneous

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 3

Colony Records-Miscellaneous

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 4

Cradock-Genealogy-Chart

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 5

Arthurian Ballad-Caradoc

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 6

Cradock-Not Matthew

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 7

Skinners

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 8

Cokayne, Sir William

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 9

Ancestry

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 10

House

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 11

Calendar of the State Papers

Box 21: folder 12

1630-1634

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 13

1635-1641

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 14

Puritans

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 15

Cradock, Damaris

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 16

London

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 17

Map of London

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 18

London Stone

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 19

Cradock

Box 21: folder 20

Government in New England

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 21

Correspondence-Miscellaneous (A-Z)

1955-1956

Box 21: folder 22

Drapers-Research Book

Box 21: folder 23

A-F

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 24

G-P

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 25

R-Z

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 26

Shrewsbury Drapers

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 27

Shrewsbury Drapers-Correspondence

1949-1953

Box 21: folder 28

Nationalism & Sectionalism in 19th Century America

ca.circa1928-1959

Box 21: folder 29

Slavery in Politics

ca.1928-1959

Box 21: folder 30

Articles

The American Way in Higher Education-The Yale Review

undated

Box 22: folder 1

The Apse up to Year 1000 A.D.

undated

Box 22: folder 2

Books and Bookstores-New York City Conference for the National Association of College Stores

The Photographs and Ephemera series includes Mendenhall portraits, family portraits, portraits of friends, and photos taken during leisurely travel as well as while attending collegiate institutions. Also included are many crew and sailing photos, including a sailing album and Van Fisher sailing photos. There are several unidentified and miscellaneous photos located at the end of the series.

Photos

TCM Portraits

ca.1920-1930s undated

Box 24: folder 1

TCM Candids

1930-1989 undated

Box 24: folder 2

Family

1950-1952 undated

Box 24: folder 3

Friends

1930-1990 undated

Box 24: folder 4

Germany Trip

1934

Box 24: folder 5

Oxford

1934-1935

Box 24: folder 6

Le Rosey

ca.1920-1927 undated

Box 24: folder 7

TCM at Yale

1931-1959 undated

Box 24: folder 8

Smith [Post-Retirement]

1977-1991

Box 24: folder 9

Miscellaneous Crew and Sailing

1934 1950-1959 1975 1995 undated

Box 24: folder 10

Sailing Album

1928-1931

Box 24: folder 11

Van Fisher Sailing Photos

undated

Box 24: folder 12

Unidentified and Miscellaneous

1929-1959 undated

Box 24: folder 13

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